PHP & PHPbb2

January 13th, 2005, 3:06 pm

I am having trouble installing PHPbb2. I have installed PHP and mySQL. any help would be appreciated.

hopefully this has not been covered here already.

January 13th, 2005, 3:31 pm

well, what kind of trouble are you having?

[ATNO/TW]

January 13th, 2005, 4:13 pm

It would probably be also helpful to know what versions of php and mySQL you installed. It's my recollection reading that the newest version of PHP does some funky things with phpBB

January 13th, 2005, 5:38 pm

ftp://www.dropzonecycling.com/phpbb2/

take a look

php version is 4.3.10

mySQL is 4.1.7

the trouble is that I can't open the install.php file for the phpbb2. I might be going about it all wrong. the way that I read the instructions is that I browse to the directory that contains the install.php file and open it and fill in the blanks.

[ATNO/TW]

January 13th, 2005, 5:47 pm

You can't do it in ftp. You need to have the files in html_public. You can put them in the root of html_public or make it in a subdirectory (if you prefer). Personally I would recommend the root.

This is the end result you are trying to get to:
http://www.dropzonecycling.com/phpbb2/i ... nstall.php

January 13th, 2005, 5:49 pm

here's what I get ----

The page cannot be found
The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.
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Please try the following:

Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly.
If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted.
Click the Back button to try another link.
HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

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Technical Information (for support personnel)

Go to Microsoft Product Support Services and perform a title search for the words HTTP and 404.
Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages.

[ATNO/TW]

January 13th, 2005, 5:51 pm

You are on Windows? Try it in wwwroot in Inetpub then.

January 13th, 2005, 5:58 pm

I have it on a whole separate drive

windows 2003 web server

[ATNO/TW]

January 13th, 2005, 6:32 pm

I'm not sure exactly what to tell you. My Win2K3 server has php installed and it works with IIS but they are both on the same drive, and I'm not 100% certain what the programmer did to set it up.

On 2003 server, your default website is going to be wwwroot in Inetpub so that's where all your webfiles need to be. You appear to be close because when I viewed this:
ftp://www.dropzonecycling.com/phpbb2/in ... nstall.php

I saw this:
http://www.boastingrights.com/ozzu/skater.jpg

Basically that's telling me that your server is not processing the php.

When I view
http://www.dropzonecycling.com/phpbb2/i ... nstall.php

I get a page not found. That tells me that your phpBB files are not in your wwwroot directory. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to tell you to get IIS to work with php. Hopefully somebody else can..

Best of luck.

//Edit -- I might have found it. I'll post what I found shortly.

[ATNO/TW]

January 13th, 2005, 7:34 pm

OK, first let me say, I'm a little confused about the FTP thing. It looks as if your default FTP site is your default web site. That is not normally the case. Normally in IIS your default website will be wwwroot, in which case it would be http://whatever, instead of ftp://whatever. But if you need it to be that way, then fine. My instructions assume that wwwroot is the default website and is where your phpBB files should be. Adjust accordingly.

Use this image for reference (I blacked out the server name and IP for security as they are not important) :
http://www.boastingrights.com/ozzu/phpconfig.jpg

In Inetpub right click the default website and select properties. This brings up the default website properties box. Click the home directory tab and click Configuration which brings up the application configuration box. You'll see in my graphic the php file extension highlighted. If you don't have that you'll need to add it and set the path to your php.exe with Verbs = All

That should be what you need to do to get php working. Please don't ask me how to get mySql to work with it. I haven't the foggiest clue on that one.

January 13th, 2005, 10:28 pm

I am also running frontpage server extensions.

http://www.dropzonecycling.com/skater/my-config.jpg

[ATNO/TW]

January 13th, 2005, 10:49 pm

That's irrelevent (frontpage extensions, that is). So it appears your 2003 server is your C Drive. I'll need to take a look on the server tomorrow and get back with you unless someone beats me to it. Sorry, but it's way past bedtime.

January 14th, 2005, 4:32 pm

that is correct. windows is C web is D I do that in case windows crashes and has to be formatted. even my personal system is like that running win XP Pro

January 15th, 2005, 10:29 pm

what's your opinion of snitz forums?

January 15th, 2005, 11:14 pm

I think that I found the problem. I can NOT split up my web from my programs. this sucks. I do NOT trust windows to not crash. tried that and it crashed.